Tip Top Top Tips & Little tricks..

never start a thread offering to collect useful and helpful hints with the expectation that it'll stay helpful and useful.

^ Helpful & useful.

How ironic.

posting alanis morrissette will not be ironic.

EVER.

Photoben, did you really just write all of that?

Very insightful. Top stuff there. Most of them have eluded me, but im working on it.

Yup it was a song from '99 by Baz Lurhman (director of Romeo & Juliet). I tried put a quote header on it, but the post was to big!

Tune here:

Boloocks that didn't work

http://www.we7.com/album/Baz-Luhrmann/Everybodys-Free-To-Wear-Sunscreen?m=0

I was gonna say the sunscreen thing was a bit silly, but the rest seems good.

lost or missing bracket for rear light ? no problem, use insulation tape. Job done.

Rubbing Sudacrem into your hands before you undertake maintenance makes them much easier to clean afterwards.

what? like changing nappies??

Rubbing Sudacrem into your hands before you undertake maintenance makes them much easier to clean afterwards.

Euph?

what? like changing nappies??

If you're getting covered in crap then you're doing it wrong.

^When doing bicycle maintenance in the bathroom presumably?

"Maintenance"

Que pasa cabron?

Nada, qué está con usted?

your little tricks and ways of making something better, or just last longer

You can take it to the bank

Own a fancy frame and you're worried about the paintwork? Get some "helicopter" tape:

http://www.vikingtapes.co.uk/Aerospace/3M_Helicopter_Tapes/

It's not visible, but it will protect that NOS frame while locked outside the pub in side the bike pile.
Ride it for a year, re-sell on the forum as NOS.

When setting up calliper brake cables: before you tighten the cable pinch bolt first tighten the barrel adjuster a turn or two. Then squeeze the pads against the rim, pull the cable tight and tighten the bolt to hold it. Finally, loosen the barrel adjuster to move the pads away from the rim. I find this easier, quicker and more predictable than trying to guess the right gap with both pads waggling around.

Ive got a way of tying shoelaces that will never never never come undone,
it isnt scientifically peer -reviewed, but a Swedish girl showed it to me,
free demonstrations back a my yard

is it any of these?

To remove a stubborn freewheel, balance the wheel against a wall and stand on the spanner. Works every time.

is it any of these?

That site's amazing.

Every time I get a new pair of converse shoes, or other laced canvas ones, I do a new pattern. That's a new pattern every 6 months, roughly :)

tip - UTFS

http://www.lfgss.com/thread38568.html

:)

ha!

This made me guffaw

to avoid getting pulled over by old bill for chatting on your mobile whilst riding, insert your phone into a shell and they will think you are just listening to the sea.